GMC Hummer EV Dubbed World’s First Electric ‘Supertruck’ In New Teaser: Video
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General Motors has dubbed the upcoming GMC Hummer EV the world’s first “all-electric supertruck” in a new teaser video released this week.
GMC Hummer EV teaser
The teaser video, appropriately titled “The Quiet Revolution is Coming”, opens as text flashes across the screen proclaiming the GMC Hummer EV will “shatter all expectations.” It then invites viewers to “reimagine what is possible and electrify the world, literally” before a vehicle (presumably the GMC Hummer EV) can be seen driving at a high rate of speed across the iconic Bonneville salt flats in Utah. The words “the world’s first all-electric supertruck” then appear on screen, giving us a clear indication that the EV will be firmly focused on performance.
We didn’t need this teaser video to know just how serious the GMC Hummer EV was about performance, though. The automaker has been forthcoming with regard to the truck’s extreme performance and has already confirmed it will produce up to 1,000 horsepower in certain specifications, enabling a 0-60 mph sprint of three seconds flat. Those would be impressive specs in a supercar – let alone a full-size pickup truck that will very likely be able to tow and haul similar to a regular internal combustion truck. It will also live up to the Hummer name with regard to off-road capability thanks to innovations like GM’s new Crab Mode.
The GMC Hummer EV, which will ride on GM’s dedicated BT1 electric vehicle platform and utilize its new Ultium lithium-ion batteries, will debut during a special live stream event on October 20th at 8 p.m. ET. GM will also open up the reservations from the vehicle at this time to generate some early hype and anticipation for the vehicle – similar to how Tesla has performed its launches in recent history.
Check out the teaser embedded below ahead of the big reveal later this month.
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And will be available in 2024 haha! Kidding of course.
I wouldn’t be surprised if its not available until “22. GM has very long lead times on its EV’s. Besides, they still haven’t caught up with orders from the Covid shutdown. Just talked with my salesman at the local Chevy dealership, who said he has 8-10 Silverado’s on order, and half are already sold. They are running at about 50% normal inventory because sales are great and vehicles are just dribbling out of the factory. If established vehicles are arriving that slow, imagine what all new products will be like!
GM lead time is only 20 months from public reveal to the first sale. So it will be out by June 2022 or later.
it will be available late next year. Remember the reveal of the Hummer was delayed but they’re still on track with everything else for Hamtramck.
The Hummer EV will only be late if the upgrades to the Detroit-Hamtramck plant are behind schedule.
They said SUPERTRUCK ?
Like the Supercar the C8,
ZL1… ETC.
I was fortunate enough to hear from a guy who led the interior design teams for both the Hummer truck and SUV, and though he couldn’t give specifics, he said it’s going to “absolutely blow your mind,” with “everything you could ever want for off-road and just kick-ass fast on road.” He said the “supertruck” tagline is almost an understatement.
Also noteworthy is that GM is running a short reveal film the night of the reveal (October 20th) during Game 1 of the World series and the premier of the new season of “The Voice.” Think what Ford did with the Bronco on Disney and ESPN. From the Super Bowl initial announcement of the return to the actual reveal with a World Series ad…they are NOT messing around with advertising this thing.
I really, truly think they’re going to nail this one.
you must be a cleveland browns fan.
I’m a Browns fan when they beat the Cowboys…
What the hell is that supposed to mean?
@steve
What the hell is that supposed to mean. You want to comment on the substance of the article, or nah?
the cleveland browns are an american football team and perennial losers. does that help?
or would you prefer a curling analogy instead?
Wait, really? That’s what the Cleveland Browns are? I thought that was a brand of laundry detergent, thanks for clarifying.
You do realize that analogies only work when they make sense, correct?
ok … let me take another swing.
the cleveland browns have taken disappointing their fans to an art form.
so in this analogy, gm is the cleveland browns and you are a fan. gm has a great record of disappointing investors/enthusiasts/etc …
is that clear enough or are pictures/puppets required?
Oh…I see. Right, because the C8, ZL1, ZR1, Escalade, Denali, SuperCruise, CTS-V, HD pickups, Suburban, Bolt, etc., etc. were all extremely disappointing. Like the Browns, GM never gets anything right. Must be why you comment on this GM website so much.
Terrible analogy. Does the phrase “Socratic Irony” mean anything to you? Obviously, I knew all along what you were saying, but I wanted to give you a chance to come up with something that actually was factual and made sense…which you didn’t do. If GM has such a disappointing record, find another car brand.
i’m glad i was able to enlighten you. stay in school.
“Blow my mind”? (!!!) We’ll see. I think the engineer friend is just dating himself – rather like the vehicles they typically design.
And I say this as the reasonably happy owner of 3 GM Plug-in vehicles. Far from perfect, but look at the absolutely HORRID products the competition releases.
Model 3’s with such precision quality control that the the roof flies off 5 minutes after delivery. Bumpers that fall off (and rip the wiring harness out) when going through a puddle.
Major competitor FORD can be either good or bad…. But their EV products to date have been atrocious. A friend’s Ford PHEV was in the shop for 3 months the first year – with ford scratching their collective heads trying to get the charger to work.
Lately, his 6 year old daughter ripped the rear OUTSIDE door handle off. Powerful Katrinka indeed!
With GM you have to put up with the typical crap of Engineers thinking they are so much smarter than their customers…. Just this morning I was driving in very overcast weather, but still during the morning rush hour on the freeway, being blinded by the ‘DAYTIME SUNSHINE BRIGHT’ WHITE dashboard display that the dimmer control won’t fix (works only at night), when visibility conditions outside the car are poor to start with and them I’m semi-blinded by the dashboard.
You would think with all the tens of thousands of engineers SOMEBODY would have half a brain to ALLOW THE DRIVER TO SHUT IT OFF !!
I drive GM plug-in products because – compared to the competition, at least the car won’t leave you stranded very often….. That is the sad state of affairs currently in this “BLOW YOUR MIND” electric plug-in car situation we find ourselves.
I haven’t been ‘overwhelmed’ by a GM vehicle in Decades, and I’ve bought the vast majority of GM electrics – on my 6th plug-in currently.
To the extent that GM gets rid of their silly – no information – dashboard displays and cartoons, and puts real actionable info on the dashboard – we’ll see how intelligent they’ve suddenly supposedly gotten.
Fair enough. You seem to be pre-tty nitpicky, but that’s your prerogative. A glass half empty kind of guy. But that only means that it takes more to impress you. We’ll find out in 2 weeks if GM’s done it.
Nit picky? Totally unintelligent comment…. I almost was involved in an accident and it is definitely a bad safety issue…. But Every GM car I have owned in the past 20 years has had unbelievably stupid design cues.
Since You are an Internal combustion guy through and through, as you describe yourself, you’ll probably be surprised to learn that you get far more ELECTRICAL INFORMATION in their ICE vehicles, than in any of their electrics.
Your comments seem more like you are interested in moving the stock price than talking about vehicle facts.
I’d think as an ICE guy and as a GM stockholder, you’d be more concerned with former Silverado owners – including truck repairmen (!!!) who now drive Toyota Tundras since they are tired of constantly repairing Mexican or Chinese crappy sensors.
I still have no idea what car you drive, but I’ll go ahead and assume the Bolt since you leave zero context beyond “I drive GM plug-in vehicles.” I’ll also assume that you’re talking about the day/night instrument cluster display.
You can shut that off, you know. I hope you know this.
As far as stock prices and the Silverado, I don’t know why that’s relevant at all. It seems to me that you wanted to purposely change the topic because you didn’t like what was said to you about your strange, unrelated critique on a Hummer EV article. I own no stock, nor do I care about your emotional ranting about ICE trucks. Just admit it, you’re a pessimistic guy who takes position criticisms way too seriously, not that big of a deal. But I highly suggest that if you have so little to say that’s good about GM, in fact you’ve said NOTHING good about them, that you find a forum more suited for your complaining and negativity.
Like, say, Twitter.
How specifically do you shut that off? I’m talking specifically about the display directly in front of the steering wheel. Since you are the self – appointed big expert (who probably doesn’t have any idea what you are talking about) please tell me. The Bolt ev is also the first car I’ve ever owned (including junkers) that has left me needlessly stranded twice.
I’d go into that but it is technical, and you seem much more interested in being the ‘big frog in the little pond’.
You confuse constructive criticism with negativity. Besides, who died and left you King?
If GM made the cars right, or at least operationally right – there would be nothing to say.
I don’t know why I should help you with all your accusing, name-calling and negativity that came out of nowhere, but since this is clearly an issue for you:
1. Tap the 4-dot icon in your center infotainment screen, top left, second from the left
2. Hit “Settings”
3. Scroll down until you see “Display Settings,” and click that.
4. There will be two graphics on the bottom left showing your day and night displays. Your daytime display will be set to “Blue Sky” by default. To get the darker screen, set it to “Black Eclipse.”
I never appointed myself “King” or “big expert,” but yes, I actually do know what I’m talking about. So you’re welcome for the help.
Instead of trashing GM engineers for things they never even did, or complaining about how poor GM cars are (that you drive), I’d again ask you to consider driving a different brand and visiting different car websites and forums. This is a website for GM enthusiasts, and while criticism is always welcome, its not true criticism when you’re making claims (“You would think with all the tens of thousands of engineers SOMEBODY would have half a brain to ALLOW THE DRIVER TO SHUT IT OFF !!”) that are totally unfounded and 100% false. That’s not constructive anything, it’s just ignorance. And people would be far more likely to help you resolve issues if you didn’t treat them like crap.
I’ll try it later since at the moment I’m finishing my coffee. But during a rush-hour situation (or usually with the pernindle in anything but ‘P’) I can’t change it anyway…. Obviously the engineers on that one did not think it through.
At least when people like Bob Lutz were around, he overruled many ‘design cues’ on my 2011 Chevy Volt since he had very serious complaints with the ‘final – unchangeable’ designs, and as vice-president what he said goes.
Thankfully – he was the decision maker – but then – he was more talented than you.
Man – you are so full of constipated thoughts.- you can’t talk in a pleasant tone of voice, and your ad hominem attacks should really disqualify you from commenting here since commenters should be forced to maintain a certain amount of decorum.
But then – as they say – “Good Advice costs nothing, and its worth the price”.
Lol, what irony. When you don’t die in rush hour traffic, think of my “tone of voice.” Which was far more respectful than yours ever was at any point in this thread. Four final things for ya:
1.) You were wrong.
2.) Educate yourself about your own car (see “owner’s manual”).
3.) You’re very welcome.
4.) And have a nice day.
Well let’s see G8Burnout – The option is there in the settings – NOTE: THIS IS THE ONLY SLIGHT DETAIL YOU WERE CORRECT ABOUT>
Now, I wasn’t wrong 1)… 2). This is on most other cars a trivial issue – I could go into THAT but as Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ has said, “Do not throw your pearls before Swine”. The literal problem there is that the pigs would eat them but the point is there is no benefit since you have severe reading comprehension trouble – since in my post I stated that GM IS OVERALL THE BEST OUT THERE. As one other comment stated here for you to ‘stay in school’ – that may be good advice since you cannot read critically.
The specific problem with that ‘night’ display, is that in the Bolt EV there is much too glare and it interferes with Driving. There are also 2 other big things wrong with it, (since , but a 3rd is that, like the ‘daylight’ display – it is unadjustable during the scenario I mentioned.
Its almost a certainty that you are extrapolating your tiny bit of knowledge about ONE GM product and make the silly assumption that this applies to all makes and models. The Generation one and two volts, and the Caddy ELR do not suffer from this same visibility trouble even though all are GM products… The issue (among the evs) only exists in the Bolt EV.
If your serious about this, it’s gotta come in with AT LEAST 35″ tall tires.
Bronco=35s off the lot..just sayin.
Lol, the Bronco doesn’t get 35’s off the lot, unless you get the Badlands or Wildtrak. The 4 lower trims all come with smaller tires. You can option 35’s on any trim with the Sasquatch package, but that’s not “off the lot” for all Broncos.
…if it comes standard with 37’s please take my money right now
Though I’m very excited to see the Hummer EV finally come to surface, I’m sure the Warranty coverage on that truck may be slightly higher than that of the Sierra due to the All Electric platform from the Driver’s Infotainment System to the Battery Unit itself, but for the most part, I’m sure that I will see more than my share of these new trucks on the road for those who can afford to get one. GM, please make sure you all have a Long Term strategy for success with this Hummer, even when it comes to ongoing EV Range updating in order to stay competitive against Tesla and even Lucid Air.
You are forgetting two other truck competitors: Ford and Rivian.
I see you all have an aweful lot of confidence in a vehicle that has no where near the capabilities of a real Hummer. For example being electric is a huge disappointment for anyone that was asking for a new Hummer. The charge time of an electric vehicle makes it COMPLETELY worthless right now. They say they’re working on that. But unless I can get a 100% charge in 5 minutes or less. It’s a problem. And a major one for something that will probably weigh between 4 and 6 tons. Especially considering a lot of guys like myself used there Hummers for ACTUAL work. I tow heavy trailers and push a 10 foot plow with my H2 as well as using it for road trips to and from the east Coast.
So all of that is now not possible being electric. Sometimes I have to plow for 36 hours at a time. That’s NEVER going to happen with electric power. Pulling a trailer is a pipe dream with electric. Because your “400 mile” range drops exponentially fast with even a small trailer. And because of the aforementioned charge time issue. Road trips are COMPLETELY OUT OF THE QUESTION!
Now I’m sure it’ll be a badass truck. And I’ll bet it will even sell pretty well due to mostly virtue signaling rich guys. But no one that I know that wanted GM to revive the Hummer brand wants an electric truck. In fact we all wanted an L5P Duramax.
@Brandon Crimmins
Hate to tell you this man, but you are way off base with the intended purpose and target audience for this thing. Some basics:
1.) This is targeted at the Jeep/Defender/Bronco/Rivian/H2/H3 crowd, NOT the old H1crowd. The H1 is gone for a reason and its never coming back. If you want one for work, there are PLENTY of military Humvees for cheap at gov’t auction.
2.) If you want to plow, get a Silverado HD. If you want to haul a trailer, get a Silverado HD. Again, that’s not the purpose of this thing, just like the Gladiator isn’t designed to haul big loads. It’s a lifestyle/offroad truck, not a work truck.
3.) I’m an ICE guy through and through, but charging time absolutely does NOT make EV’s completely worthless. First off, 98% of the time, the range of 400+ miles is way more than people will need on any given day. We drive on average 50-60 miles a day, you go home and charge back up overnight. And any trips beyond 400 miles now has a quickly growing fast-charge network being built accross the nation. Yes, 30 minutes for a full charge is still too long, but you can go from 20% to 80% charge in about 10 minutes in many locations. You’re being overly dramatic.
4.) Where you WOULD have a very valid criticism is running out of juice on the trail. It’s a fact that this won’t be able to handle the most brutal offroad locations on the planet, not due to suspension and chassis hardware, but because of range. But for 99% of trails here in the USA, you’ll be perfectly fine. And as better battery tech comes out, you can swap out the new, longer-range modules into the frame of the Hummer EV for greatly increased range.
I think you need to readjust your expectations. You seem to think this is going to be an H1 replacement, when it’s not. That market is WAY too niche. This is trying to be a vehicle sized between the H2 and H3 with tons of power and offroad hardware that can be a viable product years into the future, which is something the old Hummers didn’t have and led directly to their death.
You don’t need 5 minute charging for road trips. EV Fast charging is supposed to be “drive up and plug in” starting with this generation of vehicle. You’ll save a lot of time fumbling around with a card, having to stand by the car while it fills up. Instead, plug in, run inside, grab a snack, use the bathroom, and in that time you’ll have enough charge for the next 2-3 hours of driving. You can say you don’t need to use the bathroom but from a full charge you’ve been on the road for a solid 4-5 hours at that point with the larger batteries. On an average day you don’t have to stop to refuel your vehicle. Those stops on the way to work or home from work are the ones that you’d expect to be fast since you don’t need to run inside, but they just simply don’t exist anymore, period. With an EV I spend less time overall refilling it since it takes all of 5 seconds every day versus 5-10 minutes twice a week.
If you’re expecting to buy an EV to pull a 10,000 lbs trailer across the country in two days, you’re right that condition isn’t feasible in an EV right now, and probably won’t be in the near future, but it’s barely feasible with any non-HD truck anyway.
@Brandon
1). Plowing 36 hours…… well maybe not, but anyone in that situation might catch a few ‘z’s at a fast charger.
But for that rarefied segment of GM truck buyers who are physically able to do that, or, have a tag-team of workers but only 1 truck. then yes, that guy should probably buy a different vehicle.
Of course if you did have a tag-team of 10 employees doing continuous snow plowing over 36 hours, you conceivably could also have a SECOND ev that would be charging up while SOMEONE was taking a break.
More likely – a company in that situation will buy the FORD F150 hybrid.
2).. There is a guy in Ithaca, NY who routinely puts battery packs in his trailers and connects it to the vehicle’s main battery….. When doing so he gets more range from the vehicle while towing the trailer.
Expect plenty of that kind of ingenuity in the future with this and other ev trucks….Yes it does take longer to fully charge BOTH battery packs – but then life is tough all over; at least you don’t have to think about it – just plug it in and wait for it to get done or move on to something else.
Yes, businesses can’t afford extra vehicles they rarely need, but many people are adaptable and can make things and situations work when at first blush you’d think they’d be stuck.
EV trucks are not great for absolutely every situation, but there are situations for which the EV is better suited than a plain truck…..
A). If its wintertime and you’ve parked a truck inside an unheated and unwired garage, you can get warmth while you are working on something (using a welder or table saw running off the EV truck), without poisoning yourself.
B). If you are a contractor, roofer, plumber, etc and need more electricity than the typical 400 watts you get from the gasoline truck’s inverter – you might have an air compressor (which could be gasoline powered – true- but the following tools are only available as electrics) – pipe threader, plastic pipe warmer, bandsaw, table saw,
welder, and you could again work without fear of lack of ventilation.
It remains to be seen how popular this feature will be, but truck bed space would be saved for the typical work truck by not having valuable square footage taken up by a large portable generator – even if you did park the truck in the fresh air.
Anyone else catch the subtle screaming V8 soundtrack at the end with the dustup clips? A little NLP towards relating to all the oil biased gearheads as seen in the comments here perhaps? I have owned more than my share of petro puking hardware – still do, but I’m also greatly looking forward to the coming electrification – growing pains and all. Let go of the past people.
@ronjo
I heard what you’re talking about as well, and its really interesting. But if you listen carefully, it’s not a V8 sound, even though it was clearly engineered to sound similar to that…it’s actually the electric motors themselves, likely injected with a bit of synthetic sound that makes the tone deeper like a V8. Very smart move.